Visual journalists are always searching for new technologies to help them capture more detail and get the news out faster. But they’ve operated within the constraints of a camera lens, a two-hundred-year-old technology that gives readers a single, 2D representation of an event.
What if we could break free of the rectangle and let readers experience a setting the same way the journalist did? Instead of just looking at a photo of a space, what if we could move through it?
— The New York Times
The New York Times shares its research using photogrammetry for journalistic purposes. Dovetailing on the sophisticated and exacting approaches employed by investigative groups like Forensic Architecture to reconstruct contested and often tragic events, the NYT team instead harnesses the power of 3D-scanning to convey the spatial qualities of their stories, in this case, the destruction left in the wake of Hurricane Dorian and the interiors of an artist's residence, among other examples.
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Great, we will soon have 3d representations of Trump's face
Arch coverage [Distracted NYTIMES] >>>>>> Things on fire
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